The selfie, like all technology, causes us to reflect on our human values. This is a good thing because it challenges us… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
What is the value of interactions that contain no understanding of us and that contribute nothing to a shared store of human… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Technology challenges us to assert our human values, which means that first of all, we have to figure out what they are. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We're in partnership with technology, influencing each other in a dance. My loyalties are to our making and shaping technology to conform… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“From watching children play with objects designed as “amusements,” we come to a new place, a place of cold comforts. Child and adult, we… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“I said that we use digital “passbacks” to placate young children who say they are bored. We are not teaching them that boredom can… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“enduring technological optimism, a belief that as other things go wrong, science will go right.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“In the classic children’s story The Velveteen Rabbit, a stuffed animal becomes “real” because of a child’s love. Tamagotchis do not wait passively but… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Human relationships are rich and they're messy and they're demanding. And we clean them up with technology. Texting, email, posting, all of these things… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“But at the same time, there is pressure to use technology in classroom in ways that make conversation nearly impossible. Interestingly, this technology is… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
I have to fight the impulse to use my phone as an alarm clock rather than leaving it in another room. If I don't,… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“The new technologies allow us to “dial down” human contact, to titrate its nature and extent.” — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true. — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
If you're happy with where the Internet, Facebook, and Twitter have taken you, I'm not the Grinch. Someone called me Sherry Turkle's "evil Luddite… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
